2017-03 Tales from Digging the Old North Crypt

Boston Archeologist Joe Bagley (standing left) oversees the crypt dig with Old North Church Vicar and Foundation President Steve Ayres (standing right) and community volunteers.

Artifacts include this Boston redware

Community volunteers take their turn digging and sifting through the crypt underground at Old North Church

One of four dig sites in the crypt under Old North Church

Osteoarchaeologist Jane Lyden Rousseau examines an artifact in the North End crypt

Volunteer David Arnold carefully sifts through the soil for artifacts

Old North Foundation President & Vicar Steve Ayres (standing right) examines an artifact with Boston Archeologist Joe Bagley (standing left) as volunteers dig and sift through the undergound soil.

Tomb #26 going back to 1808 in the crypt under Old North Church. The archeological dig is examining the area under the walkway around the tombs.

Tombs from the early 1800s next to the walkway unearthed for the archeological dig.